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20 September 2012

Our great choreographer Merce Cunningham explained

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What a great genius, Merce Cunningham. [...]

9 October 2011

Balanchine’s “Symphony in Three Movements,” from 1972, to Stravinsky

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video snippets of miami city ballet’s staging of a masterful work made by balanchine for nycb’s stravinsky festival of 1972, which we wish we could see right now! [...]

24 May 2009

Diaghilev’s five great choreographers

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To create the dances for this glamorous posse, Diaghilev engaged five choreographers over the course of twenty years. This quintet now occupies a permanent spot in choreography heaven as classical ballet’s A-team: Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Bronslava Nijinska, and George Balanchine [...]